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119                    <figure class="kg-card kg-image-card"><img src="https://kvfrans.com/content/images/2022/08/Screen-Shot-2022-08-06-at-8.24.24-PM.png" class="kg-image" alt></figure><!--kg-card-begin: markdown--><p>Hi, I'm Kevin! Welcome to my webpage. I am a PhD student at <a href="https://bair.berkeley.edu/">Berkeley AI Research</a> under <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~pabbeel/">Pieter Abbeel</a> and <a href="https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~svlevine/">Sergey Levine</a>. Before that I did my undergrad + master's at <a href="https://www.csail.mit.edu/">MIT CSAIL</a>, under <a href="http://web.mit.edu/phillipi/">Phillip Isola</a>.</p>
120<p>My interests are in understanding deep learning and scalable self-improving systems. Generally, my prior research has been in reinforcement learning and generative modelling. That said, the world is vast, and there are many things worth a study.</p>
121<p>I like to write to think. This blog contains mostly thoughts for my own thinking, but you are free to browse around.</p>
122<p>In the past, I spent a year as a researcher at <a href="https://crosslabs.org">Cross Labs</a> investigating open-ended learning. At <a href="https://sizigistudios.com/">Sizigi</a>, I built AI-powered artistic tools. Before that, I worked on generative models at <a href="https://www.autodesk.com/research">Autodesk Research</a> and was on the reinforcement learning team at <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a>.</p>
123<p>If you are interested in the topics above, shoot me an email (hi at kvfrans.com)! It helps if you've been brainstorming a specific idea or started some preliminary work; we'll have a starting point to discuss.</p>
124<!--kg-card-end: markdown--><!--kg-card-begin: markdown--><p>Timeline</p>
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126<li>2017: <a href="https://openai.com/">OpenAI</a></li>
127<li>2018: Autodesk Research</li>
128<li>2018: Start B.S. + M.Eng at MIT</li>
129<li>2019: Sizigi</li>
130<li>2020-2021: Gap Year @ <a href="https://www.crosslabs.org/">CrossLabs</a></li>
131<li>2021: Started <a href="https://paragraphai.com">ParagraphAI</a></li>
132<li>2018-2023: <a href="http://web.mit.edu/phillipi/">Phillip Isola's lab</a> at MIT CSAIL</li>
133<li>2023-Now: PhD @ <a href="https://bair.berkeley.edu/">Berkeley AI Research</a></li>
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